Incident Tracker / United States (state)
In re Estate of Carey
·Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Three·US-STATECosts orderprovisional
Washington Court of Appeals on 2026-03-03 in In the Matter of the Estate of CAROL M. CAREY found the self-represented party's appellate brief contained six citation defects, including Perez v. Pappas, involving nonexistent authorities, fabricated or misattributed quotations. The court ordered the self-represented party to pay or reimburse $1 in fees or costs for the defective filing.
- Court
- Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Three
- Date
- 2026-03-03
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Todd's briefs repeatedly cited fabricated or inapplicable case law, including fictitious estate-law authorities listed by the court.
- Outcome
- Costs order
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Provisional — written by the court-decisions pipeline, awaiting the editor
- Last checked
- 2026-09-08
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “In re Estate of Carey”, safelegalai.com/tracker/in-the-matter-of-the-estate-of-carol-m-carey (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.